Market Intelligence, Strategy and Analytics

NIHAL GODAMBE

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EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Chicago, IL Master of Business Administration, Concentrations in Finance, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management June 2006

• GMAT 750 (99th percentile), Dean's Honor List for four quarters, member of the Chicago Consulting Club. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Iowa City, IA

Master of Science (thesis), Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 1996

• Thesis research culminated in a technical journal publication, and paper presentations at two conferences.

• Awarded Teaching and Research assistantship: assisted students in the laboratory, graded reports, held office hours. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) Bombay, India Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering May 1995

• Ranked in the top 0.2% of over 150,000 students nationwide, in the IIT entrance exam.

• Volunteered as a Math and Social Studies instructor and site coordinator for the National Service Scheme.

• Awarded the J.N Tata Endowment and Tata Chemical Scholarship for pursuing graduate studies in the US. EXPERIENCE

IMMERSION - MARKET INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS & INVESTOR RELATIONS San Jose, CA Director April 2016-Feb 2017

• Strategic Planning: Created TAM, market share models for invest markets in Mobile, Gaming, Advertising, Automotive, Medical and VR. Introduced strategic analysis tools across the company to analyze new business models (Business Model Canvas, Scenario Planning, Relative Market Share).

• Created pricing models across the product portfolio and regions to optimize revenue and penetration.

• Analyzed the Mobile Gaming landscape to formulate a go-to-market strategy. Created a target list of publishers and evaluated several pricing structures for monetization in collaboration with the sales team.

• Analytics: Extracted insights from mobile gaming data to track product attach rate by smartphone OEM.

• Tracked market share across VR headset vendors and created a business case for the opportunity in VR controllers.

• Investor Relations: Tracked earnings models from equity analysts, created investor communications material, participated in earnings call and conferences.

MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS - MARKET INTELLIGENCE & STRATEGY San Jose, CA Director March 2011-March 2016

• Established and built the Market Intelligence function to provide competitive insights, intelligence and recommendations to influence strategic decisions within the company.

• Strategic Planning: Spearheaded the company's first strategic planning process. Created the TAM and SAM for invest markets in collaboration with product management. Tracked company and competitor market share within these focus markets. Introduced new strategic analysis tools across the company to analyze the company's product portfolio for investments and divestitures (growth/share matrix, share momentum, relative market share, Growth vector analysis).

• Market Research and Analysis: Developed knowledge and points of view in new areas by collecting, analyzing and synthesizing relevant market and competitive information. Authored internal pieces on wearables, smartwatches, IoT, smart thermostats, medical patches, sensor hubs, drones, hype cycles and China smartphone OEMs.

• Customer Analysis: Segmented the company’s customer list by end markets and quantified wallet share and gross margins at customers to formulate a go-to-market strategy and created a customer model for the sales team. Analyzed company and industry pricing to facilitate contract negotiations at key customers.

• Corporate Development: Performed M&A candidate screens and identified targets in line with the company’s acquisition criteria and growth strategy. Valued the target using comparable multiples, quantified potential synergies and the impact of the combination on the company’s EPS, growth, capital structure and end market exposure. Evaluated the potential for SAM expansion for a recent acquisition, and integrated all acquired product skews into existing financial systems. Spearheaded the acquisition of IoT IP for the company.

• Venture Strategy: Analyzed start up competitors and their impact on company revenues and market share. Screened potential startup companies in the IoT space for sales and the ventures team to target.

• Investor Relations: Tracked competitive intelligence by following earnings calls and equity research of customers and competitors. Collaborated with IR and business units to craft the company’s message for Investor Day.

• Market Share Tracking: Tracked the company's market share on a quarterly basis by product segments, major competitors, channel and business units. Created executive dashboards using Tableau to track market share and margins by product lines and invest areas.

• Analyst relations: Engaged with analysts to monitor industry trends and disseminate relevant research to the appropriate teams. Responded to inquiries with appropriate positioning for the company's products and markets.

• Consolidated market research and product teardowns throughout the company, chose vendors, created a company-wide repository/website, managed a central budget and built a team. MORGAN STANLEY - EQUITY RESEARCH San Francisco, CA Sr Associate/ Stock Analyst February 2008-March 2011

• Covered the following semiconductor stocks: Texas Instruments, NXP Semiconductor, ST Microelectronics, Analog Devices, Linear Technologies, Maxim Integrated, National Semiconductor, ON Semiconductor, Avago Technologies, ARM Holdings, Skyworks, RFMD and Silicon Labs. Participated in quarterly earnings calls and analyst days. Created detailed financial models, performed valuation (using comparable multiples, DCF and sum-of-the-parts), authored notes and made investment recommendations.

• Worked on the NXP and Avago Technologies IPOs. Performed due diligence with management and customers. Created detailed bottoms up financial models, valuation, competitive and market analysis and authored detailed initiation reports on the company.

• Modeled the impact of JVs, acquisitions, FX, significant design wins and competitive dynamics on company earnings.

• Hosted senior executives for investor meetings and built relationships with company management, industry experts and internal constituents.

• Expert knowledge of the wireless and semiconductor supply chain. Analyzed and monitored the supply chains for semiconductors (from foundries to end customers), wireless handsets, computing and networking markets.

• Communicated investment recommendations and updates to internal sales professionals and external clients.

• Collaborated with other Hardware, Telecom and Semiconductor teams in the US, Europe and Asia. QUALCOMM - STRATEGY San Diego, CA

Marketing Manager December 2006-February 2008

• Performed Bill-of-Material and die cost analysis for various wireless and computing devices (smartphones, data cards, navigation devices, consumer devices). Created and maintained the internal semiconductor component cost database for pricing information based on third party and internal research.

• Detailed knowledge of competitive chipsets for cellular, Wi-Fi, data card modems, Bluetooth and GPS devices.

• Developed market forecasts, value chains and financial models for new white-space opportunities in navigation and tracking, connectivity and data cards. Contributed to several business cases for the annual strategic planning process. FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR Lake Zurich, IL

Senior Staff Engineer/Lead Oct 2003-November 2006

• Received the Intellectual Property Award from the CTO for outstanding contribution to the company patent portfolio.

• Led the functional requirements definition effort, on a multi-site team for the next-generation 3-G cellular chip platform. MOTOROLA - SEMICONDUCTOR SECTOR Ft. Lauderdale, FL Senior Staff Engineer June 2000-Oct2003

• Developed a multi-mode GSM/EDGE microchip, as part of a platform design strategy, which was used in the company's first high-speed data capable (EDGE) cell phone for the US market. Collaborated with globally distributed teams to enable the customer to launch their product on time. MOTOROLA - LAND MOBILE SECTOR Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Senior Engineer Feb 1997-June2000

• Designed a radio platform with a $10 million revenue stream, having dual use in cellular and public safety applications.

• Worked on a low-cost platform solution for a global family of two-way radios.

• Mentored new employees. Interviewed and recruited prospective candidates for full-time positions. ADDITIONAL

• Served as World Chair and Board member for the WSTS (non-profit semiconductor organization).

• Certificates: Analog chip design from the National Technology University, Linear Regression & Statistics (Coursera)

• Six patents granted at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

• Paint watercolors, completed State level Art exams in India and have won prizes at the State and City levels.

• Avid fan of detective and mystery novels. College debating team captain.

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

• Volunteered as a judge for the annual school science fairs. Mentored middle school students in Math and Science.

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